José Rizal: Asian Apostle of Racial Equalitarianism
time in 1882. The name of Jose Rizal is revered by Filipinos, and the cities and towns of the Philippines have their Rizal statues and Rizal avenues. Filipino school children learn that Rizal was a great patriot who was executed by the Spanish in 1896 as an alleged insurrection-ist. His place in the history of social and political